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June iSy 



unlike that of the privets. These species 

 are Springa Awurensis,S. Pekinensis; and 

 S.Japonica. They all have "fleecy" white 

 flowers, and are late-blooming, that is 

 they do not come into flovv-er till afterthe 

 common lilacs are past. Amiirensis 

 bloomed first with us at Cambridge, 

 Mass.,inl878, PeA-/;;ens/s didn't bloom in 

 this country tilt half a dozen years ago. 

 When Amarensis gets good ground and 

 an open place, and is grown on its own 

 roots it makes quite a nice shrub, and 

 comes into bloom about the third week in 

 June. Before Pekinensiscame into flower 

 we looked upon it with some suspicion, it 

 grew very nicely and formed comely 

 shrubs keeping a good form and having 

 lots of leaves. Since it began blooming 

 however, we have found out that ourfirst 

 fears were groundless, and that instead 

 of being of inferior merit it is the best and 

 most floriferous of thethree,bearinglargc 

 panicles of creamy white flowers from 

 every tip. 



The tree lilac (Japonica) is the most 

 distinct of all. It is grown from seed and 

 from the first assumes a one-stemmed 

 tree shape, usually making very symmet- 

 rical specimens. Although a strong 

 grower it doesn't run up tall very quick 

 but rather takes its body of branches 

 along with it. Its foliage is large, clean, 

 and leathery, indeed wehaveneverknown 

 ot the leaves of either of these species be- 

 ing attacked by mildew. The tree lilac 

 has been blooming quite freely since a 

 dozen 3'ears, but we cannot call it free- 

 blooming; it makes up for this, however, 

 in the immense size of its compound 

 panicles. 



All of these three species are perfectly 

 hardy and very desirable garden plants; 

 indeed S. Japonica lives nicely in the 

 frigid northwest. We are indebted for 

 our illustration to Messrs. Ellwanger & 

 Barrv of Rochester, N. Y. 



TREES AND SHRUBS IN BLOOM JUNE 7. 



Since my notes of May 23 there have 

 been a few good showers of rain, but 

 nothing at all adequate to the needs of 

 vegetation generally. As a consequence 

 blossoms of all kinds have been exceed- 

 ingly fugacious. 



Some of the later flowering dier\'illas 

 (Weigelias) are still making a fairly good 

 show, notably some of the dark ones such 

 as President Duchartre and Montesquieu. 



The different forms of Philadelphtis 

 coronarius are past their most showy 

 stages; a very desirable variety is primu- 

 IxHorus in which the blossoms are double 

 and it does not seem to be quite so rank 

 growing as the parent. Yokohama is 

 another distinct form, lower growing and 

 more compact in habit than the type and 

 with distinct plicated foliage. We have 

 always had doubts about the varietal 

 connection of this form with P. corona- 

 rius. Lemome's philadelphus is now in 

 full flower and a most desirable form. 

 The blossoms are just openin- on P. 

 Lewisii. The earliest form to flower is P. 

 grandifforus and it is now aboi-t past. 



Amongs the single flowering shrubby 

 roses Rosa rugosam its different varieties 

 is still giving us lots of flowers, R multi- 

 flora is beautiful just now in its raceme- 

 like clusters, R. moscbeutos, R.rubrifolia, 

 and R. aitida are also now in bloom; and 

 the charming R. repens of Europe with its 

 white petals and yellow eye is at its best. 



We have here a very pretty low spread- 

 ing dogwood under the name of Cornus 

 australis, it is about out of bloom. It 

 bears numerous good s zed white cymes. 

 The panicled dogwood is in fine bloom. 



The bladder senna (colutca) is now 

 covered with its vellow flowers, it is 



spreading and establishing itself in this 

 neighborhood with great energy. 



Genista tinctoria (dj'cr's broom) is a 

 mass of yellow blossoms, and Cytisus 

 hirsutus is opening a few. Some linger- 

 ing clusters are still to be seen on Wista- 

 ria frutescens. 



The European privets are in full bloom. 

 The laurel and box leaved varieties are 

 very desirable shrubs. Ligustrina cilia- 

 turn is in bloom, it bears here, many small 

 clusters of creamy yellow flowers. The 

 common elderberry is coming into bloom 

 and the early flowering species (.Sambi/cus 

 pubens) is showing bunches of red fruit. 



Amongst the honeysuckles Lonicera 

 ciliata and L.fragrantissima are showing 

 ripe fruit. The trumpet honeysuckle and 

 the yellow honeysuckle (L. ffava) arestill 

 in good bloom, and L. grata and L. 

 glauca have been in bloom since a week. 

 A small leaved bushj'form underthename 

 of Z,. Ibirica, with small yellowish flowers 

 is nearly past. 



Deutz/a^rac/V/s is passing out of bloom, 

 strange to say it flowered splendidly this 

 season, while a year ago it was almost a 

 failure with us, having been severely win- 

 ter killed; how to account for it we do 

 not know and this seems all the more 

 puzzling when D. crenata (which is just 

 now opening its flowers) has been severely 

 damaged from the past winter, and from 

 the previous winter itsuflered no damage 

 whatever. The two groups are side by 

 side. Itea Virginica is opening its pretty 

 clusters of white flowers. 



The only spirreas in flowerare S. tenuis- 

 sima and S. rotundifolia alba. The 

 clusters of seeds are ripening up prettily 

 on iS. opulifolia. The only spiraea so far 

 as we know with at all showy fruit is the 

 last named. [Most of the Neillias have. — 

 Ed.] The sun rose (Helianthemum vul- 

 gare) in diflerent varieties gives us a crop 

 of fleeting flowers daily, the blossoms 

 lasting only a few hours. 



False indigo (.\morpha Iruticosa) has 

 been in bloom for some time, and the red 

 bud (Cercis) is bearing a heavy crop of 

 seed pods this _vear, the brownish pods 

 are pretty. 



Cotoneaster Simondsii is in flower 

 and the clammy locust (Robinia riscosa) 

 is passing out of bloom. A few flowers 

 are still on R. hispida. 



The New Jersey tea (ceanothus), a real 

 pretty, but common native shrub is com- 

 ing into bloom, masses of its white clus- 

 ters of flowers are very attractive. 



The yellow wood (Cladrastis) has 

 passed out of bloom. Ithas notflowered 

 as freely here this season, as it did the 

 two past years. The Euiopean linden 

 came into bloom to-day. 



John Du.niiar. 



Highland Park, Rochester, N. Y. 



NOTES FROM THE ARNOLD ARBORETUM. 



Two years ago 1 spoke very highly of 

 the new Spirwa arguta, which resembled 

 vS. Thunbergii, but surpassed it in every 

 way, and it continues to surpass it. It 

 should be grown everywhere and given a 

 prominent place among early blooming 

 shrubs. While Spirxa Thunbergii failed 

 entirely this year in regard to its bloom- 

 ing qualities. Spiraea arguta was loaded 

 with beautiful white-clustered sprays 

 about 18 inches in length, and in a whorl. 

 The foliage which is now following the 

 flowers (they having passed some two 

 weeks since) is shorter and more oval in 

 shape than that of >V. Thunbergii. This 

 plant is sold by some European nursery- 

 men as Spiriva multillora arguta. 



Spinea trilobata var. Van Houtlei is 

 so good that no one should be without 

 it. As soon as it passes out of bloom cut 



out the larger portion of the old flower- 

 ing wood; in fact we do this with many 

 of our earlier flowering shrubs, and the 

 results compared with the non-pruned 

 plants is wonderful. If Exochorda gran- 

 diffora were primed in harder after its 

 flowering seasonit would be ahandsomer 

 shrub than it isandnot so loose a grower. 

 Spireea pubescens blooming about two 

 weeks ago did not flower as well as usual. 

 Other spiraeas that are doing well this 

 year are Douglasii, Japonica, mollis, 

 cana, chamwdtitolia and Mongolica. 



Physocarpus Torreyi is verj' ornamen- 

 tal, with its umbels of white flowers, and 

 the red anthers of the stamens set off the 

 flower very prettily. P. Amurensis has 

 foliage much larger than the above and 

 is covered with similar flowers. Kerria 

 Japonica winter kdls here to a considera- 

 ble extent. We have the single yellow, 

 the double form, and the variegated- 

 leaved. 



Rubus deliciosus which is passing out of 

 bloom, has flowered well this season, its 

 large, single, white blossoms being very 

 beautiTul. 



Rbodotypos kerrioides is opening its 

 white flowers. Although it is handsome 

 now it will be more so in the fall, when it 

 is covered with its black fruit. 



Photinia villosa (Pourthia arguta) 

 resembles the amelanchier very much, it 

 being covered at present with clusters of 

 small waxy white flowers. [But its great- 

 est glory is in the fall when it is full of its 

 clusters of scarlet fruit.— Ed] 



Cotoneaster retlexa is a graceful and 

 charming shrub covered with long sprays 

 of white flowers. It is the most beautiful 

 of this genus. 



Pyrus nigra and P. arbutifolia both are 

 used to a great extent throughout the 

 park system of Boston and very useful 

 shrubs they are, P. nigra being the earlier 

 to bloom by a few days and P. arbutifo- 

 lia the more straggling of the two. 



The single roses are beginning to bloom. 

 The various forms of Rosa spinosissima, 

 namely fulgens and pusilla are very pretty. 

 Both these and grandiHora have all the 

 desirable qualities, as habit, foliage, 

 flower and fruit, and they should be 

 grown in all gardens. Rosa alpina. R. 

 acicularis, R. rubella and R. coriifolia 

 and many other varieties bearing flowers 

 of a medium size are beautiful and desira- 

 ble. 



Viburnum Opulus sterilis, the common 

 snowball, is doing better this season than 

 it has done for some time past and seems 

 perfectly free from the disease which usu- 

 ally appears with it. V. opulus, the tree 

 cranberry, is also in good flower, indeed 

 I prefer it to the snowball itself, it being 

 ornamental both in the summer with its 

 flowers and in fall with its fruit, V. 

 tomentosum is growing in popular favor 

 every year and very deservingly. It is a 

 plant of moderate growth and a "single" 

 form of the Japanese snowball, V. plica- 

 tum. V. prunifoliuni is fast passing out 

 of bloom; the plant when in its prime is 

 very striking and almost a miniature 

 tree. The cymes are of medium size with 

 perfect flowers. V. Lentago, the sheep- 

 berry, a native of New England, is at 

 present in full bloom, its large flat cymes 

 of white flowers being extremely showy. 



Among the comuses we find C. stoloni- 

 fera showing up nicely. This species and 

 also C. alba are used in large quantities for 

 winter and late fall effect in our parks on 

 account of the brilliant color of the bark. 

 C. Ignorati and C. Bailey i are also in 

 good bloom Sambucus Sieboldi is very 

 ornamental at present with its extremely 

 large cymes of greenish-white flowers. 



Rhododendron Rhodora. This pretty 



